Biography

Sadiq Bakhshi Ahmad was born in 1924 in the village of Hasn Bakra, affiliated with the Deraluk sub-district in the Amadiya district of Dohuk province. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a bachelor's degree in agriculture from the University of Tashkent. It was in the Soviet Union that he married Sundus Sina Bilav, and they had a son named Yusuf Sadiq. After returning from the Soviet Union in 1959, Sadiq Bakhshi was employed at the Mosul Agriculture Department. After the uprising of the people of Kurdistan, he retired in 1993. He passed away in Dohuk on August 12, 1998.

Struggle History

Sadiq Bakhshi joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943. On October 2, he participated in the capture of the Shanadar police station, and on October 15, he participated in the capture of the Birekapra police station. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On September 5 of the same year, he participated in the capture of the Maydan Morik police station. After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution on October 11, 1945, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzani force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Oshnavieh and Naghadeh on March 19, 1947.

He was among the Peshmerga who, on April 19, 1947, returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region through the Khwakurk route and the Bazargir plain via the territory of Northern Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 15, 1947, in the village of Argush and gave them the choice to stay or head toward the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and head toward the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani toward the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Qotur and the Battle of Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which lies on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were moved to a military camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and on the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and, under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, they were taught the Kurdish language for four hours daily by some of their companions who were literate.

After the poor treatment by Jafar Bagirov toward the companions of Barzani, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk compound near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training. 

In March 1949, he and his companions were distributed in groups and squads by train to the collective villages of the Soviet Union, where they worked on collective farms (the lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back). 

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and the committee's final decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky. Therefore, he went to the city of Vrevsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, and in accordance with both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article, and by applying Article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were covered by the general amnesty. 

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abd al-Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he and his companions returned to Kurdistan via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on the ship Gruzia.

In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and participated in the battles of the Bulbul and Sarsing bridges. On November 23, he participated in the Battle of the Silivana Plain, and from December 7 to 12, he participated in the Battle of Gali Zawita. After the March 11, 1970 agreement, he became the representative of the Sheikhs of Barzan in the Ze Plain.

In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he returned to his home. From December 25, 1985, to February 15, 1987, he was arrested several times by the Iraqi government. In 1991, he participated in the uprising of the city of Dohuk. On August 16, 1996, within the framework of the Golden Jubilee celebrations, for his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Republic of Kurdistan, the journey toward the Soviet Union, Aylul Revolution، Gulan Revolution and the uprising, by President Masoud Barzani he was awarded the Barzani the Immortal Medal. 

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